best horror movies
Get a fright with our list of best horror movies like ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Get Out’, as chosen by Time Out writers and horror experts
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Horror is huge these days, both at the box office and in critics circles. That’s a relatively new occurrence, though. For a long time, horror was greatly misunderstood. In the 1970s and ’80s, it was a vehicle for quick cash-ins to stock the emerging home video market, creating a deluge of cheap schlock that managed to taint even the genre’s acknowledged classics.
In the last few years, however, horror has become prestige, thanks to the likes of unexpected blockbusters like A Quiet Place and Get Out, as well as the work of new masters such as Ari Aster and Robert Eggers. In the first half of 2024, some of the year’s buzziest films – I Saw the TV Glow, Late Night with the Devil, In a Violent Nature – are stretching the genre in bold new directions. So if you’re just now coming around to horror’s visceral pleasures, consider this list your guide to everything you’ve missed, or perhaps dismissed.
Written by Tom Huddleston, Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Nigel Floyd, Phil de Semlyen, David Ehrlich, Joshua Rothkopf, Nigel Floyd, Andy Kryza, Alim Kheraj and Matthew Singer
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